Solar Thermal in California

If you happen to live in California you should be taking note of the great incentives for heating water with sunlight instead of gas or electricity. These incentives aren’t small either: $2,175 is the “initial incentive level” if you are offsetting natural gas as a heating source. That’s a pretty great incentive for a system that might cost around $6,000 and would pay for itself even without the subsidy.
Check out the California Solar Initiative’s Solar Thermal site for more info. And while you’re there be sure to check out the wonderful resource which is a list of all of the prices and sizes of the projects that have qualified for the incentive. While we always recommend getting multiple bids for work, be sure to ask your installer to be beat that average price!